Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 23 Yin-Yang Meridians (Please continue reading)
Aishan Sanxianguan

Chen Gou'er clutched his stomach and laughed so hard he rolled around on the floor.

Li Wushou was washing himself in the courtyard, while the old beggar rubbed his bruised and swollen head and complained.

"You're showing off with your crappy Yin Qi? You almost killed me!"

"Haha. So Li Wushou really can fly?"

Chen Gou'er was extremely curious. Ever since he heard Wu Zhuangyuan's story about Qi cultivators, Chen Gou'er had been longing for these things, such as flying through the clouds. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been clamoring to name his home "Three Immortals Pavilion".

The old beggar rubbed his back, looking somewhat disdainful.

"It's about the same size as the chickens from Scholar Wu's family!"

"Uh... what does that mean?"

"Take it or leave it!"

Chen Gou'er burst into laughter again, then jumped off the bed, ran to the old beggar, and gave him a fawning tap on the shoulder.

"Old man, I want to fly too. When are you going to get me a Yin Meridian?"

"Go away! What use is that thing to you? Li Wushou can't even fly as fast as you run!"

Seeing that Chen Gou'er was in a hurry, the old beggar leaned close to his ear and whispered something.

"The important thing is to raise more flesh and blood from the Blood Buddha Temple. The taste of those spiritual eyes... tsk tsk... they're incredibly delicious!"

Chen Gou'er's lips got wet, and he felt his saliva about to spill out. Suddenly, his face hardened, and he looked at the old beggar suspiciously.

"When did you eat the spirit eye?"

Li Wushou, who had just washed off the mud outside the courtyard, walked in and was delighted to hear Chen Gou'er's question.

"Just now at the Ren family compound, he ate about a hundred of them. The old beggar ate them with great gusto, and even stomped on them to play with them. I was originally thinking of bringing some back for you."

When the old beggar saw Li Wushou enter, he was about to say something sarcastic when he suddenly heard this sentence, and blood rushed to his head.

"Li Wushou! You're spouting lies!"

His nearly healed index finger trembled as he pointed at Li Wushou, while his eyes secretly observed Chen Gou'er.

"Huh? We'll find out if they've eaten or not by going to the Ren family compound tomorrow, Dog. I wasn't lying. What a pity, so many eyes are watching."

Li Wushou subtly added fuel to the fire once again. He hadn't been paying attention just now and had made a low dive while carrying the old beggar. The old beggar complained endlessly after the fall, and Li Wushou, knowing he was in the wrong, couldn't argue. Now he finally had an opportunity.

Sure enough, Chen Gou'er looked back and forth a couple of times, his face turning completely ashen. He sniffed the old beggar, then suddenly jumped onto him.

"Old man, I'll fight you to the death! You'll eat alone! Your ass will rot!"

"Ahhh, so many eyes, and I didn't eat a single one!"

The old beggar's already messy hair became even more disheveled after Chen Gou'er tugged at it. Looking at Li Wushou standing smilingly to the side, the old beggar was furious.

"Li Wushou, you are ungrateful! I'll fight you to the death!"

Carrying Chen Gou'er, he rushed onto Li Wushou.

The three of them played around for half the night before gradually calming down.

The fight didn't end because Chen Gou'er calmed down, but because the old beggar suddenly stopped the commotion with a solemn expression.

Li Wushou and Chen Gou'er had both seen this expression before, and knew that something serious had happened.

The old beggar got up from the ground, walked to the simple incense table behind the table, rubbed three sturdy clay strips off his leg, lit them, and stuck them into the incense burner.

With a mouthful of yellow teeth, he took a deep breath and exhaled towards the mud-strip incense, instantly filling the area in front of the wooden plaque bearing the names of the three people with a misty haze.

Then the old beggar uttered a muttered sound, which Li Wushou could see clearly; it sounded like he was cursing!
After a long while, the old beggar waved his hand, turned around, and said something.

"It's alright!" Li Wushou nodded, then asked, "Was it the Blood Buddha Temple?"

Seeing the old beggar nod, Li Wushou said nothing more and rubbed Chen Gou'er's head.

"Go to sleep! The Spirit Eye will have plenty to eat later!"

Chen Gou'er first glared at the old beggar, then smiled at Li Wushou, revealing two small tiger teeth.

"Now that I know Li Wushou, can you take me flying tomorrow?"

"of course can!"

The old beggar led Chen Gou'er back into the house.

He muttered to himself the whole way, patting his chest and swearing to the heavens, and finally managed to appease the little devil.

Li Wushou was speechless, but did not choose to go inside and sleep with them.

When it comes to yearning for immortals and Qi cultivators, Li Wushou is no less ardent than Chen Gou'er.

By sheer coincidence, with the help of the old beggar, I have sculpted my Yin meridians and absorbed Yin energy. According to the stories told by Wu Zhuangyuan, I am now considered to have transcended the mundane world.

How could this not make Li Wushou yearn for it?

It's not hard to understand why he couldn't wait to carry the old beggar on his back and ride the wind.

Through the experience of flying on the wind, Li Wushou has gained a clearer understanding of his own meridians.

When his Yin Meridians were first formed, Li Wushou had already noticed that his Yin Meridians were quite different from those described in the Divine Official's Yin Refining Technique.

Not only can yin energy flow in these yin channels, but blood energy can also flow within them. The two are perfectly integrated and can even transform into each other.

This alone sets it apart from the priest's Yin-refining technique itself.

The first step in the priest's Yin Refining Technique is to allow the body's meridians to come into contact with and adapt to Yin energy. This is actually a process of Yin energy transforming and building a foundation for the physical body.

Once one has absorbed the Qi, although one is called a human, one's dependence on the physical body has decreased, and one focuses more on the Qi and the soul!

Just like the High Priest, who exudes an aura of yin wherever he goes, while the Civil and Military Priests and the City God go a step further, having completely shed their physical bodies!
But Li Wushou is different. Not to mention that his physical body is naturally unafraid of Yin energy, to some extent, it would be correct to say that he was born to enter Yin.

Because Yin energy cannot transform Li Wushou's physical body, but is naturally compatible with it, Li Wushou's physical body cannot be shed.

Moreover, after swallowing half a bird and the heart of the City God, Li Wushou's body underwent significant changes. In the left side of his chest cavity, a heart that was half solid and half illusory was beating very slowly.

For many years, Li Wushou had longed for his physical body to grow like that of an ordinary person.

This idea is the same as the yearning for Qi cultivators and immortals.

The Yin meridians formed at this moment are not only compatible with Yin and Yang, but can even rotate with each other. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call them Yin-Yang meridians!

Li Wushou immediately tried to examine the meridians. A wisp of Yin energy circulated within the Yin meridians, transforming into a stream of blood energy, which was carefully injected into the heart!

Then his heart began to beat slowly, swallowing the blood.

How could this not surprise Li Wushou?

This means that in the future, in addition to the shadow devouring living souls, one can also accelerate their own development by condensing Yin energy!

This alone was enough to delight Li Wushou.

Of course, if that were all, given Li Wushou's years of experience begging for survival with the old beggar, he wouldn't have led the old beggar in a low-altitude dive.

But a subsequent change made Li Wushou completely forget the fact that he was flying, and he stood there dumbfounded in mid-air.

Just after Li Wushou transformed a wisp of Yin energy into blood energy and guided it into his heart, a new wisp of Yin energy silently entered his body from the shadow behind him along the crown of his head.

(End of this chapter)